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Mermecodia - The Ant Plant

Started By BugFinder , May 3 2020 9:32 PM

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#1 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 3 2020 - 9:32 PM

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Has anyone ever kept this plant in an ant vivarium? I just learned about it tonight? I'm wondering if there are local varieties of this on various contentents, or if it just exists natively in Asia....

Mermecodia Ant Plant

Placed in a vivarium

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“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

My Journals:

Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

Camponotus Vicinus

Camponotus sansabeanus

Tetramorium (sp)

Pogonomyrmex Californicus

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted May 4 2020 - 6:32 AM

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I've seen them for sale before though you'd need to live in Europe or SE asia and Australia to be able to keep the ant genus that lives in them (philidris)

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My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#3 Offline ponerinecat - Posted May 4 2020 - 7:12 AM

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They only live in Asia. There are counterparts in the Americas, for instance certain acacia plants that Pseudomyrmex like or the hollow stems that Azteca nest in, but they're even harder to obtain as they're in the south.